Tonight’s AEW Rampage will air on TNT from the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas.
* Submission Match: Tay Conti vs. Penelope Ford
* The Young Bucks, Adam Cole & Bobby Fish vs. Best Friends (Trent, Chuck Taylor, Orange Cassidy) & Rocky Romero
* AEW World Tag Team Champions The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero M & Rey Fenix), Eddie Kingston, Santana & Ortiz vs. Daniel Garcia, The Acclaimed & 2point0
* Dan Lambert returns to AEW
AEW stars Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler are teasing a potential New Japan run and declaring their desire to challenge for the IWGP tag titles.
FTR members Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have a few very clear-cut goals … but not all of them involve AEW. And if their own words are anything to go by, they’re more than ready to part ways with Tony Khan’s promotion in order to take care of business.
Harwood and Wheeler addressed their future and their current AEW contract status during a recent chat with Brandon F. Walker on Barstool Rasslin‘. The FTR said they want to regain the AEW tag titles next year and they intend to defeat The Briscoes, the stalwart Ring Of Honor tag team they confronted during last week’s Final Battle pay-per-view.
“I think we are going to be the first-ever two-time AEW Tag Team Champions,” said Wheeler. “In 2022, we are going to get the titles back. We are going to have the title run that we should’ve had the first time,” he added. “Rematch with the Young Bucks. Beat the s**t out of The Briscoes. Hold titles everywhere.”
Harwood later revealed that the lads don’t have much time left on their AEW contracts.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen from there. But we have a short amount of time to accomplish what we want to accomplish,” Harwood said, before declaring FTR’s intention to challenge for the coveted IWGP Tag Team Championship at some point.
So far, FTR has been unsuccessful in its attempt to recapture the AEW World Tag Team Championship, but they didn’t manage to win the AAA tag titles from the Lucha Bros on Dynamite a few weeks ago.
Harwood and Cash Wheeler formed a tag team while they were both members of WWE’s developmental roster. For the majority, they were known as The Revival, due to their penchant for an old-school style of tag team wrestling. The duo parted ways with WWE in 2020 and subsequently jumped ship to AEW. They made their AEW debuts on the May 27, 2020 edition of AEW Dynamite.
Source: TheSportster
Top indie wrestler Brody King has reportedly signed with AEW.
King reportedly signed with AEW almost immediately after ROH announced that they were going on hiatus until April 2022 at the end of October, according to Cassidy Haynes of Bodyslam. King was then told over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that the signing was a done deal.
As seen in the tweet below, this week’s Winter Is Coming edition of AEW Dynamite featured a new Malakai Black vignette to tease the debut of a new House of Black member. It’s believed that King will be the new member.
King and Black are the current PWG World Tag Team Champions. Billed as The Kings of The Black Throne, they won the vacant titles at PWG Threemendous VI on September 26, defeating Black Taurus and Demonic Flamita.
King began wrestling back in 2015, and has worked for MLW, ROH, NJPW, PROGRESS, EVOLVE, and GCW, among others. He worked for ROH from December 2018 until the company went on hiatus with the Final Battle pay-per-view last weekend. Final Battle saw King lead his Violence Unlimited stable of Homicide, and Tony Deppen with Rocky Romero to an eight-man tag team match victory over EC3, Eli Isom, Taylor Rust and Tracy Williams. King left ROH a one-time ROH World Tag Team Champion and a one-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion.
King has been working with NJPW since 2018 due to his ROH contract. There is no word on if the AEW contract will prevent him from working with NJPW moving forward. He last worked for NJPW at the NJPW Strong Nemesis tapings on December 9, going up against Dave Dutra.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
The special Winter Is Coming edition of AEW Dynamite on TNT will air live tonight from the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas.
AEW has announced the following line-up for tonight:
* Matt Sydal vs. Wardlow
* MJF vs. Dante Martin for the Dynamite Diamond ring
* Hikaru Shida vs. Serena Deeb
* AEW World Championship: “Hangman” Adam Page (c) vs. against Bryan Danielson
AEW star Matt Hardy took to Twitter this week and posted a video to announce his new Twitter policy.
After recently announcing that all of his tweets would be genuine Matt Hardy thoughts and not something made up to go along with one of his gimmicks, Hardy posted this new video to announce his personal policy for Twitter interactions. Hardy says he will no longer interact with the trolls or the people that bring negativity.
“I want to take a second to talk about Twitter,” he began. “I know I told everyone in the past that you’re not seeing a wrestling character tweet now. I am notorious for doing that in the past, I enjoy doing it just for the entertainment of others, even myself at some points, but from this point going forward, whenever I tweet, whenever I respond, it is going to be as real-life, real-time, Matt Hardy. Authentic Matt Hardy. I would respond to a tweet the way I would respond to someone in a regular conversation in everyday life, and what that means is that the people that come with, like, negative horse-s–t or stuff that is incorrect, or if people are talking about something they have absolutely no idea about, or if they’re just trolling, I will not dignify those responses at all, I will not dignify them.
“I am only going to be responding and interacting with the people that come with constructive criticism, that come with varying opinions, as long as it’s done respectfully. I am totally cool with that, I love a good honest-to-God conversation, especially on Twitter if someone has a varying opinion than I do, and I’m cool with that. So, from this point going forward, I am not going to respond to any trash or any troll, I am only going to be responding and interacting with the people that are here on Twitter, and deserve to be rewarded by tweeting productive, constructive, honest-to-God, fair stuff. That’s it.”
Hardy captioned the video with, “MY NEW TWITTER POLICY If you agree to these terms, put a [check mark emoji] in the mentions.”
This new video comes after Hardy announced last week that his social media posts would no longer be coming from his “Big Money Matt” character.
“You’re not getting tweets from Big Money Matt anymore. You get authentic Matt Hardy tweets & thoughts now,” he wrote last week.
You can see Hardy’s full video below:
Source: Wrestling Inc.
Tonight’s AEW Rampage on TNT from the new UBS Arena at Belmont Park in Elmont, NY, (Long Island)
* Ruby Soho, Tay Conti & Anna Jay vs. Nyla Rose, The Bunny & Penelope Ford
* Adam Cole (w/Young Bucks & Bobby Fish) vs. Wheeler Yuta (w/Orange Cassidy & Best Friends)
* AEW World Tag Team Championship: Lucha Brothers (c) (w/Alex Abrahantes) vs. FTR (w/Tully Blanchard)
* Hook vs. Fuego Del Sol
AEW star Chris Jericho is reportedly recovering from a non-Covid related health issue in a UK hospital while on tour with his band Fozzy.
Chris Jericho’s band Fozzy has been forced to pull out of a concert in the UK after the AEW star was admitted to hospital.
A statement from the Fozzy that was shared on social media by the venue at which the band was due to perform claims that Jericho is currently recovering from a treatable health issue. As a result, the Fozzy concert at Sin City in the Welsh city of Swansea, UK was canceled.
The statement from the band reads as follows:
“Chris was checked into Hospital by doctors, with a non Covid related, treatable health issue. Regrettably the show on Friday in Swansea is cancelled and all tickets will be refunded. Will have updates on Saturdays show in Nottingham and Sunday’s show in London as soon as possible”.
In the same post, the venue’s representatives wished Jericho and speedy recovery.
The sold-out UK leg of Fozzy’s “Save The World” world tour kicked off n Liverpool on November 29. Since then the band has played seven shows in the UK and one in Ireland. With the cancellation of the Swansea gig, Fozzy has two remaining UK dates; one in Nottingham on December 11, and one in London on December 12. Whether Jericho recovers in time to make those shows remains to be seen, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
Jericho has been absent from AEW programming since he was attacked backstage by Daniel Garcia and 2point0 on the December 1 edition of AEW Dynamite. The former AEW Champion’s last match went down at Full Gear on November 13 The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Ortiz, Sammy Guevara & Santana) defeated the American Top Team (Andrei Arlovski, Dan Lambert & Junior Dos Santos) & Men Of The Year (Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky) in a Ten Man Tag Team Minneapolis Street Fight.
Source: TheSportster
UPDATE
Chris Jericho says he is feeling good despite being hospitalized in the UK earlier this week.
Jericho spoke with the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and said the issue that caused his hospitalization was not serious.
“I’m feeling good. They just wanted to observe me overnight and I’m in the right place. Not COVID related,” Jericho said.
It was announced two days ago that Fozzy’s 12-date “Save The World” tour of the UK was 100% sold out at every stop. Jericho noted to The Observer how the tour has been.
“Tour has been amazing. 100 percent sold out and crowds have been absolutely nuts,” he said.
As of this writing, there is still no word on the last two dates of the Fozzy tour. The band had just performed in Bournemouth, England on Wednesday night, and after tonight’s nixed show in Swansea, were scheduled to wrap the tour on Saturday with a sold out show in Nottingham, and on Sunday with a sold out show in London. The original message from Thursday noted that they would have updates on the last two shows as soon as possible.
Jericho did not appear on AEW Dynamite this week due to the Fozzy tour. He last appeared during the December 1 Dynamite episode, and was attacked backstage by 2point0 and Daniel Garcia as a way to write him off TV for the tour. Jericho has not wrestled since The Inner Circle defeated Ethan Page, Scorpio Sky and American Top Team in the 10-man Street Fight at AEW Full Gear on November 13.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
AEW seemingly hinted at Bray Wyatt’s upcoming arrival during the 12-man Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal.
Something strange happened during the Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal on last night’s episode of AEW Dynamite that has led to speculation about the potential arrival of another former WWE star.
The lights flickered during the 12-man Battle Royal match. A blue light covered the ring, and that was followed by a red light. Naturally, some are wondering if AEW was hinting at the upcoming debut of (Windham) Bray Wyatt.
Red lights were a signature feature of Wyatt’s entrance for his “Fiend” gimmick. He even wrestled a handful of matches with the red lights filling up the arena.
MJF and Dante Martin emerged as the co-winners of the Dynamite Diamond Battle. Those two stars will now face off at next Wednesday’s Winter Is Coming special to determine the winner of the Dynamite Diamond Ring. And Winter Is Coming just might feature the arrival of Wyatt, who was released from his WWE contract back on July 31.
Wyatt’s 90-day non-compete clause expired back on Oct. 29, so he’s been free to sign with another promotion for a while now. AEW President and CEO Tony Khan has expressed interest in talking to Wyatt, who’s working on a movie with close friend Jason Baker.
Source: TheSportster
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite on TNT will air live from the new UBS Arena at Belmont Park in Elmont, NY, which is Long Island.
* The Young Bucks vs. Rocky Romero and Chuck Taylor
* Riho vs. Jamie Hayter
* Bryan Danielson vs. John Silver
* The third annual Dynamite Diamond Battle Royale
AEW star Austin Gunn of The Gunn Club is set to make his reality TV debut.
Gunn has been announced for E!’s new “Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules” reality series. The show will premiere on Wednesday, January 12 on the E! network.
“Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules” will feature eight celebrity children being put to the test at Saddleback Ranch in Colorado. The children of celebrities will spend 30 days working on the ranch “as they seek to discover and define their own identities outside of the shadow of their famous parents.”
Gunn will be joined by the following celebrity children – Shaquille O’Neal‘s son Myles O’Neal, Pat Benatar’s daughter Hana Giraldo, David Hasselhoff’s daughter Taylor Hasselhoff, Martin Lawrence’s daughter Jasmin Lawrence, Ray Parker Jr.’s son Redmond Parker, Billy Bob Thornton’s son Harry James Thornton, and Eazy-E’s daughter Ebie Wright.
In the trailer seen below, Gunn bills his father Billy Gunn as a WWE Hall of Famer, and does not mention AEW. There’s no word on if their roles with AEW are discussed during the actual show.
Gunn tweeted on the gig today and said it will be a wild ride.
“mark your calendars for this wild ride [man with cowboy hat emoji] the ups, the downs, the fights, the drama, etc. it’s time for the ranch life!,” he wrote.
The group will be tasked with helping the ranch recover from the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, and will be expected to help re-open the ranch and increase its tourism to bring sustainable business back to the area in just 30 days. The trailer below also shows Austin involved in romance storylines and drama with other castmates.
A special sneak peek preview of “Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules” episode 1 will air on Tuesday night after the People’s Choice Awards on E! and NBC. The first two episodes will then premiere on Wednesday, January 12 at 9pm ET.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
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